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Did you volunteer to create a Web site for the softball team? Is it time to take your small business to the next level and let your customers shop online? Well, you can relax! ASP.NET 3.5 makes creating a dynamic site faster and cleaner than ever before, and ASP.NET 3.5 For Dummies makes it easier.
First, you’ll get an introduction to all the tools and terminology you need to understand ASP.NET. If you’ve used earlier versions of ASP.NET and Visual Web Developer, you can probably skip that part and jump right into what’s new in 3.5. You′ll make friends with LINQ and SQL, create sites in Visual Web Developer 2008 Express, and much more. Before you know it, you’ll discover how to:
- Integrate data, track shopping cart contents, and whisk away bugs
- Create user interfaces with easy navigation
- Use the ListView control for sophisticated formatting
- Write LINQ queries
- Add a table to a database
- Create an event handler
- Take advantage of the drag ′n′ drop feature that lets you write less code
- Put all the features to work to develop dynamic Web applications
The softball team is going to love that Web site, and your customers might enjoy shopping on your site so much that you’ll have to expand your business to fill all the orders! We can’t promise that, of course, but we’re pretty sure that ASP.NET 3.5 For Dummies will make creating Web sites easier and a lot more fun.
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All new for ASP.NET 3.5!
Make friends with LINQ and SQL, and create sites in Visual Web Developer 2008 Express
Did you volunteer to create a Web site for the softball team? Want to let yourcustomers shop online? Relax! ASP.NET 3.5 makes creating a dynamic site faster and cleaner, and this book makes it easier. You′ll quickly discover howto integrate data, create user interfaces, track shopping cart contents, whisk away bugs, and much more.
Discover how to:
Use the ListView control
Write LINQ queries
Add a table to a database
Create an event handler
Code less using drag ′n′ drop
Develop dynamic Web applications
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is for beginners and for ASP.NET professionals who are tackling some new features of ASP.NET 3.5. And for this reason it is a good book to read. It's clear, there are lots of code examples for real world problems and the writer makes significant effort to explain the code in steps. It tackles VB coding and logic that does make sense in a way that other enormous ASP tomes cannot.
I would recommend this book to anyone needing to start a VB web application. Mr Cox (the author) tells his story with the odd comic reference which lightens a typically heavy subject.
I think the main problem with this book is that it has been published under the "for dummies" publisher. If it were published by Wrox or Apres then I am sure the previous reviewer would think again.
I would recommend this book to anyone needing to start a VB web application. Mr Cox (the author) tells his story with the odd comic reference which lightens a typically heavy subject.
I think the main problem with this book is that it has been published under the "for dummies" publisher. If it were published by Wrox or Apres then I am sure the previous reviewer would think again.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Unlike it's PHP equivalent, this book disappointed me. It based itself completely on the Viusal Porgramming elements and contained little in the way of example code. Ok for absolute beginners who want to get something simple done and never look at asp again, but not for anyone who needs to code a specific solution. Even beginners will outgrow this book quicker than its counterparts.
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
A great enjoyable read
14 Mar 2008
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I am an experienced developer so I only expected to skim over the book to get familiar with any of the new asp.net 3.5 features. I found myself reading every word of every page because the book was actually "entertaining". The writing is very smooth and easy to understand. You feel as if a really good teacher who knows how to relate to people is talking to you.
I was also surprised how deep the book was able to go into each subject. For example Linq is a very complicated subject yet the book does contain enough examples for you to use it in the real world.
I was also surprised how deep the book was able to go into each subject. For example Linq is a very complicated subject yet the book does contain enough examples for you to use it in the real world.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
The Right Author, the right approach
29 April 2008
Format:Paperback
I almost didn't by the ASP.NET 3.5 for Dummies. Then I noticed that it was a different author than ASP.NET 2.0 for Dummies and I thought I would give it a look. Bill Hatfield wrote the 'Dummies' book on the previous version and while I found him to be very knowledgeable, I got frustrated because I was trying to learn how to use Visual Studio with ASP.NET and his book didn't provide much help. Ken Cox however "gets it". He wrote the book for use with Visual Studio and by the end of Chapter 4 you're already using AJAX with no difficulty! By chapter 7 you're delving into LINQ! Ken's approach is intelligent and his style works both for the beginner as well as those more seasoned in ASP.NET. Excellent book!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Rave Review Warranted
11 Dec 2008
Format:Paperback
This book is huge value for money!
It has taken me seven weeks to work my way through it. ASP.Net 3.5 is a very broad topic, and so to give it the `For Dummies' treatment would have been quite challenging, and required quite some dedication by the author, Ken Cox.
Quite apart from the book, owners get access to a website with downloadable examples for every chapter in VB or C#. There is also a forum on this website where Ken will assist you, should you have problems with the examples. I can attest to receiving assistance over the weekend!
By the end of the book:
* You will have some familiarity with all of the new v.3.5 controls, AJAX, Linq, consuming object data like RSS feeds, XML, video, Flash, etc.
* You will have been introduced to the starter kits, developed a shopping cart, and been given a thorough grounding in debugging and error trapping.
The book concludes with a discussion on deploying to a hosted site, and then ties you into the community of ASP.Net developers by advising which blogs, newsgroups and forums to subscribe to.
If you consider that you get all of the above, and a working familiarity with all of those technologies for the cover price of the book, it is amazing value for money.
I was able to take those learnings and refactor them into my code-base without problems. I have also had a couple of ideas for saleable software products, and already made a start on them.
Not exactly "This book changes lives," but certainly, "This book gives you a huge leg-up on your job!"
It has taken me seven weeks to work my way through it. ASP.Net 3.5 is a very broad topic, and so to give it the `For Dummies' treatment would have been quite challenging, and required quite some dedication by the author, Ken Cox.
Quite apart from the book, owners get access to a website with downloadable examples for every chapter in VB or C#. There is also a forum on this website where Ken will assist you, should you have problems with the examples. I can attest to receiving assistance over the weekend!
By the end of the book:
* You will have some familiarity with all of the new v.3.5 controls, AJAX, Linq, consuming object data like RSS feeds, XML, video, Flash, etc.
* You will have been introduced to the starter kits, developed a shopping cart, and been given a thorough grounding in debugging and error trapping.
The book concludes with a discussion on deploying to a hosted site, and then ties you into the community of ASP.Net developers by advising which blogs, newsgroups and forums to subscribe to.
If you consider that you get all of the above, and a working familiarity with all of those technologies for the cover price of the book, it is amazing value for money.
I was able to take those learnings and refactor them into my code-base without problems. I have also had a couple of ideas for saleable software products, and already made a start on them.
Not exactly "This book changes lives," but certainly, "This book gives you a huge leg-up on your job!"
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